From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S6tG8-0004qm-Lb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:37:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA50FE0AB1; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21375E0A95 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so2604543bkw.40 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:36:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=xbbi0gxE8onCWxmbYS2uwUUpJAV224Rgx3eXpKrUWuc=; b=ipEicNYrmdlS5FWlIIK2W/dcObLLACAO/MAwDm8OYpjwUyjKxHYDuhfCfliMhIzSOZ nLqirFPV5VGDd3c8EwOzjudxos12mO+SH8wdDKw1wTsJdQl46wcbQWtgqFDXfhTFqo2Z 2MdO4V773uy+ZLjBJEfv1innf+CYeZLxjmH4J1JFdo1D6CaSpiuZG33UtFN822AFDp7y qEepykrmxH8/T8H1oAPCTRURLMY7Z2wKgAzDLLiyCKkhSKZnTwtm/HbWUjBFNMhCg/8Y edPCcBqevETL70fSiH0//pKIA5Qyp1SGlH4uggLdxIltrIdH874Q/FHi+t5e4w0ZdO6m uPxg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.152.27 with SMTP id e27mr3999176bkw.55.1331512592148; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.32.194 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:36:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <41490c1dd7ca44bcbda73b2032982596@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:36:32 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8wKWnfaqL5IoNjR_FCk-q5nhrak Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 2593c6f6-1f25-4735-bc82-7d11f1960688 X-Archives-Hash: d025dd8e5b46b7900da5a1ed69432e17 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > To be able to upgrade a gentoo installation as old as five years is > interesting and valuable but require an effort that has yet to be > made. I suspect it shouldn't be difficult IF you have access to a binary package respository for the system set. Then you can do an emerge -K system and get all your core packages updated. In theory you should be able to install a gentoo stage3 in a chroot and do a quickpkg @system to generate such a repository. I'm open to comments as to why this wouldn't work, but it would seem to be the easiest solution to me. Of course, this won't get you whatever CFLAGS/USE settings you prefer - but once you have a working updated system set you could always do an emerge -e system to rebuild them with your own settings. Rich